Creating a New Version of a Document

This task shows you how to create a new version of a document. When you create a new version of a document, you are able to make changes to the new document without modifying the original document. The new version is accessible from the VPM Navigator tree and search results.

Related Topics
Replacing an Existing Version of a Document

  1. Expand the VPM Navigator tree Refer to Showing Attached Documents on how to display documents in the tree).



  2. Before creating the new version, the document must be in its highest maturity state (final state). For more information about changing the maturity state, see Changing Document Maturity Status.

  3. Right-click the selected document and click New Version . The New version window appears.



  4. Click OK.

    A message appears on the top right corner of the screen indicating that the command completed successfully. The new version of the document is created.

  5. To update the product structure with the new document version Detaching Documents the old version of the document and Attaching Documents the new version